As
speculative designers and architects Sin
Kabeza proposes solutions
that aim not to regulate boundaries, but rather, to encourage fusions,
correlations, and unexpected entanglements. We aim to act as
co-developmental, coevolutionary cultural symbionts, accelerating our
capacity to adapt to quickly changing environmental changes and
necessary shifts in consciousness paradigms. Sin Kabeza Productions is
a transmedia platform invested in decolonizing
anthropo&capitalcentric hierarchical rationality and its limits on
our capacity to respond to
the complex environmental and cultural challenges facing our
contemporary world. In this project we offer speculative
solutions to the conflicted encounters between species in contemporary
life. SEEDBANK is a speculative architectural site and experiment in
design fiction that attempts to meet with bacteria as actants and as
bio-semiotic tropological figures. Our interest in bacteria is inspired
by Myra Hird’s investigation in The Origins of Sociable Life, where she
emphasizes the microbial organism’s importance in the re-figuring of
contemporary evolutionary theory. For Hird, naturalcultural
stories of bacteria help to shed light on “microontologies,” what she
defines as “a way for humans to understand that they are enmeshed in a
complex web of co-domestications,” where the symbiotic evolutionary
stories of bacteria may help audiences to move beyond the premise of
human exceptionalism, or the idea that humans beings are the most
significant species. Following Hird, we extend the microbial organism’s
importance in the rethinking of contemporary evolutionary theory to the
realm of symbiotic co-evolution in knowledge production, which includes
art and culture. Just as DNA is situated with the bacterium’s organism,
so SEEDBANK becomes an archival site for the display and dissemination
of posthumanistic research.